How to Use sideburns in a Sentence
sideburns
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The intricate loops and swoops lie along her temple and make their way near her brows and sideburns.
—Gabi Thorne, Allure, 10 Sep. 2021
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Through his early years, Leonard was known for his flashy leisure suits and Elvis-style sideburns.
—Dana Hunsinger Benbow, The Indianapolis Star, 22 Apr. 2021
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At first, the tool was used primarily to shape the angles of sideburns and hairlines.
—Melanie Curry, Good Housekeeping, 13 Sep. 2022
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That meant giving the men in that environment scroungy beards and longer sideburns to reflect the era.
—Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 16 June 2022
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Milling on the sidewalk were men with wide ties and sideburns, women wearing polyester and bouffant hairdos.
—John Kelly, Washington Post, 14 June 2022
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Jessie says that the soft perimeters (aka the sideburns) of Demi's cut make the look more feminine.
—Abby Dupes, Seventeen, 25 July 2022
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Nobody did more to eroticize aviator shades and sideburns than Nez.
—Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 10 Dec. 2021
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Also in the mix was a bright-eyed man with a smooth complexion and long sideburns to tell us the time, date, and website of the show’s stream.
—Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 6 Oct. 2020
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The men of Bridgerton are quite blessed in the hair department, and their sideburns are no exception.
—Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 26 Dec. 2020
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Over the next decade, his sideburns and hair turned white, in striking contrast to his signature black mustache and eyebrows.
—Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2021
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Police say the man is light in complexion, medium build and has a salt-and-pepper short afro, with full sideburns that meet a scraggly beard.
—Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2022
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Previously, the only facial hair that wrestlers were allowed was a mustache (trimmed above the lip line) and sideburns.
—oregonlive, 4 May 2022
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The hair work consisted of a full wig with neck-hair additions, an under beard, sideburns, split chin pieces, a mustache and nostril hair.
—Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 31 Aug. 2022
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Sometimes, the price of an excellent look is a dribble of sweat running down your sideburns and what feels like a small reservoir on the lower back of your top.
—Scottie Andrew, CNN, 31 Aug. 2022
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Complete with a full head of hair, thick sideburns and retro frames, Al’s appearance in the photos is a relic of the past, and fans couldn't get enough of it.
—Rebecca Norris, Good Housekeeping, 5 May 2022
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De Los Santos tattooed Wave's name adjacent to the cusp of her lips with each letter paving toward her sideburns.
—Chelsea Avila, Allure, 21 Sep. 2022
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Perhaps the most sensitive area of all, the face requires a gentle yet effective formula to treat areas from the upper lip to sideburns.
—Kiana Murden, Vogue, 3 June 2022
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While long sideburns seem the opposite of chic, Cardi's — which curl just below the ear — not only balance out the cut but elevate it to a new level.
—Michella Oré, Allure, 8 Dec. 2021
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He is being played by Al Pacino, who is not very tall already, and this photo shows him as fat, short, with sideburns, really ugly.
—Harper's Bazaar Staff, Harper's BAZAAR, 18 Apr. 2021
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Sporting long-ish red hair and salt-and-pepper sideburns that wouldn’t last a second in the presence of a West Point disciplinarian.
—BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2021
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In the midst of her exciting business ventures, the Bajan singer has also been playing around with hairstyles, including a gorgeous pixie cut and dramatic, edgy sideburns.
—Gabi Thorne, Allure, 10 Aug. 2021
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The gathering was presided over by promoter Carlton Haney, a native Tar Heel with bushy, scimitar sideburns.
—Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2020
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With big drama and even bigger hair, the 1990s high school staple has inspired many shows, but nothing beats the original (or Luke Perry's sideburns).
—Edward Segarra, USA TODAY, 5 Aug. 2021
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In the day of bell bottoms and sideburns, chrome was king, and even judges at the most respected concours rarely distinguished between correct and over-restored cars that dripped in chrome and wore garish, inappropriate colors.
—Robert Ross, Robb Report, 26 Apr. 2021
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Adding our current ages to the years of our fathers' births put us in the late 1970s, the golden age of car-chase movies, military coups in the developing world, disco perms, sideburns, and corduroy.
—Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 13 Nov. 2020
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Most of the devices in plain view — cable box, sound bar, consoles (save for the iconic blue and red sideburns peeking out from the Switch dock) — are black, including, of course, the massive void of the TV screen.
—Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2020
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Screenshots of the video filed as evidence show Chapman, with distinctive thick sideburns and wearing a black-and-white bandanna across his brow, surrounded by other protesters inside the Capitol.
—Katie Shepherd, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Apr. 2021
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Trombonist Barnabus Jones, 41, could have stepped into this 9th Ward backyard during another century, with his mutton-chop sideburns, fedora and style of horn playing.
—Katy Reckdahl, NOLA.com, 2 Dec. 2020
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